Digitization

Digitization refers to the input of a picture in digital form, typically as an array of intensity values. For color, there will be three intensity values per pixel.

• Lots of data: 3 megabytes for 1024 x 1024 color picture.

• Introduces ``noise'' because digitized values are inexact.

• Introduces edge artifacts at boundaries between digitized values.

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